Peter Easton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Easton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Easton |
| SIGNATURE | EASTON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Zombies, Sirens, and Lady Gaga – Oh My! Developing a Framework for Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure for U.S. Emergency Alert Systems
Literacy usage in impoverished African settings
Developing literate environments
Identifying the Evaluative Impulse in Local Culture
Attention to cultural competence has significantly increased in the human services over the last two decades. Evaluators have long had similar concerns and have made a more concentrated effort in recent years to adapt evaluation methodology to varying cultural contexts. Little of this literature, however, has focused on the extent to which local cultures themselves already contain habits and patterns of evaluative thought that may serve as a basi…
Indigenizing civic education in Africa
The transformatory potential of a village empowerment program
Social policy from the bottom up
The authors analyse the experience of Tostan, a Senegalese NGO, with the abandonment of female genital cutting (FGC) in Senegal, the Sudan, and Mali. Tostan uses non-formal, participatory methodologies to support village-based social change, especially in the areas of human rights and women's health. Following Tostan's educational programme, some communities have declared a moratorium on the practice of FGC and have mobilised their families and v…
Senegal
At a time when the fate of national \n representative government in Senegal, still hangs in the \n balance, a variety of grassroots organizations is seemingly, \n and unexpectedly laying some of the groundwork for future \n change. Notions of "democracy" - adapted to local \n Senegalese conditions - are being woven among various \n assertions of human rights. The note describes how a rural \n women's non-formal education program, has been \n deve…
Burkina Faso
Nomgana is the hub community of a very active inter-village federation in Burkina Faso. In recent years, a local association called Manegbzanga has launched an experimental program using Moore language literacy as the basis for learning French. The program achieved a good deal of success and was soon faced with increasing demand for enrollment from young people who had missed primary schooling or had been forced to drop out. Test results showed t…
The transformatory potential of a village empowerment program
Social policy from the bottom up
The authors analyse the experience of Tostan, a Senegalese NGO, with the abandonment of female genital cutting (FGC) in Senegal, the Sudan, and Mali. Tostan uses non-formal, participatory methodologies to support village-based social change, especially in the areas of human rights and women's health. Following Tostan's educational programme, some communities have declared a moratorium on the practice of FGC and have mobilised their families and v…
Developing literate environments
Identifying the Evaluative Impulse in Local Culture
Attention to cultural competence has significantly increased in the human services over the last two decades. Evaluators have long had similar concerns and have made a more concentrated effort in recent years to adapt evaluation methodology to varying cultural contexts. Little of this literature, however, has focused on the extent to which local cultures themselves already contain habits and patterns of evaluative thought that may serve as a basi…
Indigenizing civic education in Africa
Burkina Faso
Nomgana is the hub community of a very active inter-village federation in Burkina Faso. In recent years, a local association called Manegbzanga has launched an experimental program using Moore language literacy as the basis for learning French. The program achieved a good deal of success and was soon faced with increasing demand for enrollment from young people who had missed primary schooling or had been forced to drop out. Test results showed t…
Senegal
At a time when the fate of national \n representative government in Senegal, still hangs in the \n balance, a variety of grassroots organizations is seemingly, \n and unexpectedly laying some of the groundwork for future \n change. Notions of "democracy" - adapted to local \n Senegalese conditions - are being woven among various \n assertions of human rights. The note describes how a rural \n women's non-formal education program, has been \n deve…
Social policy from the bottom up
The authors analyse the experience of Tostan, a Senegalese NGO, with the abandonment of female genital cutting (FGC) in Senegal, the Sudan, and Mali. Tostan uses non-formal, participatory methodologies to support village-based social change, especially in the areas of human rights and women's health. Following Tostan's educational programme, some communities have declared a moratorium on the practice of FGC and have mobilised their families and v…
The transformatory potential of a village empowerment program
Indigenizing civic education in Africa
Identifying the Evaluative Impulse in Local Culture
Attention to cultural competence has significantly increased in the human services over the last two decades. Evaluators have long had similar concerns and have made a more concentrated effort in recent years to adapt evaluation methodology to varying cultural contexts. Little of this literature, however, has focused on the extent to which local cultures themselves already contain habits and patterns of evaluative thought that may serve as a basi…
Developing literate environments
Literacy usage in impoverished African settings
Zombies, Sirens, and Lady Gaga – Oh My! Developing a Framework for Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure for U.S. Emergency Alert Systems
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (3 works) · Law (3 works)